Rep. George Santos (D-NY) pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday to charges brought against him in a new indictment alleging he filed fraudulent fundraising reports and committed credit card fraud during the 2022 election cycle.
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert set Santos’s trial for Sept. 9, 2024, roughly two months before next year’s elections.
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Santos was originally indicted in May on six charges brought by U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in the Eastern District of New York. Peace added 17 new charges in a superseding indictment against Santos on Oct. 10.
Santos stands accused of several counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements.
During his successful run for Congress in 2021 and 2022, he and his treasurer “conspired and agreed to falsely inflate” his fundraising totals in Federal Election Commission filings to meet certain ben …
George Santos pleads not guilty to fundraising and credit card fraud at New York arraignment
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